[newbie] Sorting out fstab

2005-01-19 Thread SnapafunFrank
I'm trying to get udev working functionally so am revisiting my previous attempts from scratch to put "my house in order". First port of call is the fstab file and within that I believe I may have some problems. From my notes to myself: **

Re: [newbie] still no DVD

2005-01-19 Thread Charles Lee Ying
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 19 Jan 2005 00:04, Charles Lee Ying wrote: Hey Christophe, I saw Anne made a suggestion concerning the region the player is set for. I tested this and it should have given you an error, maybe this does not happen in al

Re: [newbie] BIOS password on a Compaq Presario 1275

2005-01-19 Thread András Keszei
On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 14:11, Deep Thinker wrote: > On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 17:57:38 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Removing the CMOS battery isn't always easy on laptops. Also, most > > laptop hard drives offer a feature of setting a password on the drive > > itsel

[newbie] XFCE 4.2 mouse scrolling

2005-01-19 Thread Kenneth Rhodes
I just installed XFCE 4.2 from Charles Edwars RPMS - thanks Charles! I am absolutely thrilled, yet I do have one problem. Under Gnome while browsing web a web page in Firefox and Epiphany too, I do believe, I'd scroll down or up the web page with the mouse wheel. Under the the last couple of XFCE

Re: [newbie] Increasing swap partition size in 10.0

2005-01-19 Thread Erylon Hines
On Wednesday 19 January 2005 07:16 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: | On Wednesday 19 January 2005 03:16 pm, J. David Boyd wrote: | > My Mandrake 10.0 has been setup and running great since June/July, using | > 256M memory. | > | > When I set up the system, I went with the "double your memory for swap | > s

Re: [newbie] Increasing swap partition size in 10.0

2005-01-19 Thread Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 19 January 2005 03:16 pm, J. David Boyd wrote: > My Mandrake 10.0 has been setup and running great since June/July, using > 256M memory. > > When I set up the system, I went with the "double your memory for swap > space" rule. > > Now, I've purchased more memory, to take me to a total

Re: [newbie] BIOS password on a Compaq Presario 1275

2005-01-19 Thread Deep Thinker
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 17:57:38 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Removing the CMOS battery isn't always easy on laptops. Also, most > laptop hard drives offer a feature of setting a password on the drive > itself. I figured as much. That is why, if at all possible, I wou

Re: [newbie] Window sizing problem

2005-01-19 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 11:48, JoeHill wrote: > On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 10:53:55 +1100 > Stephen Kühn disseminated the following: > > > > Ah, KDE, what a great Desktop. Must be why they're porting it to Windows, > > > it'll fit right in ;-) > > > > And here I assumed Joe was going to give his "down pat

Re: [newbie] Cisco Aironet on Mandrake 10.1

2005-01-19 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 19 January 2005 05:39 pm, Kirschner, Mark wrote: > Hello everyone! > > After too long a time neglecting Mandrake on my laptop, I'm thinking of > upgrading to 10.1 (currently running 9.0 on it). With 9.0, I ran into a > problem of being unable to get my Aironet 350 card to work unless

Re: [newbie] BIOS password on a Compaq Presario 1275

2005-01-19 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 11:46:18 +1100 Stephen Kühn disseminated the following: > > > > Removing the CMOS battery isn't always easy on laptops. > > > > > > That's why we have hammers. > > > > Now, would the proper technique be to *hammer* the MoBo til the CMOS battery > > *falls* out, or use the *cl

Re: [newbie] Window sizing problem

2005-01-19 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 10:53:55 +1100 Stephen Kühn disseminated the following: > > Ah, KDE, what a great Desktop. Must be why they're porting it to Windows, > > it'll fit right in ;-) > > And here I assumed Joe was going to give his "down pat" answer: USE > PEKWM! Well, it kinda goes without sayin'

Re: [newbie] BIOS password on a Compaq Presario 1275

2005-01-19 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 11:42, JoeHill wrote: > On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 11:02:33 +1100 > Stephen Kühn disseminated the following: > > > > Removing the CMOS battery isn't always easy on laptops. > > > > That's why we have hammers. > > Now, would the proper technique be to *hammer* the MoBo til the CMOS

Re: [newbie] BIOS password on a Compaq Presario 1275

2005-01-19 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 11:02:33 +1100 Stephen Kühn disseminated the following: > > Removing the CMOS battery isn't always easy on laptops. > > That's why we have hammers. Now, would the proper technique be to *hammer* the MoBo til the CMOS battery *falls* out, or use the *claw* to *rip* the battery

Re: [newbie] BIOS password on a Compaq Presario 1275

2005-01-19 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 10:57, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Removing the CMOS battery isn't always easy on laptops. That's why we have hammers. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions

Re: [newbie] BIOS password on a Compaq Presario 1275

2005-01-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
et wrote: On Wednesday 19 January 2005 06:19 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Deep Thinker wrote: > >> Hello All, >> >> I have a friend that has given me several older machines because >> she no longer needs them. For one reason or another these >> machines will not work. Either bad hard drives or

Re: [newbie] Window sizing problem

2005-01-19 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 10:10, JoeHill wrote: > Ah, KDE, what a great Desktop. Must be why they're porting it to Windows, > it'll > fit right in ;-) And here I assumed Joe was going to give his "down pat" answer: USE PEKWM! Guess I was wrong today. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra

Re: [newbie] Window sizing problem

2005-01-19 Thread JoeHill
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 09:08:53 -0800 Owen disseminated the following: > >"Sometimes, when I'm in an application (doesn't matter which one) I'll > >click on a button and the next window that opens will be cropped," > > I've run into the same problem with my 19inch monitor. I have gone the same > ro

Re: [newbie] BIOS password on a Compaq Presario 1275

2005-01-19 Thread et
On Wednesday 19 January 2005 06:19 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Deep Thinker wrote: > > Hello All, > > > > I have a friend that has given me several older machines because she > > no longer needs them. For one reason or another these machines will > > not work. Either bad hard drives or cra

Re: [newbie] Increasing swap partition size in 10.0

2005-01-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
J. David Boyd wrote: My Mandrake 10.0 has been setup and running great since June/July, using 256M memory. When I set up the system, I went with the "double your memory for swap space" rule. Now, I've purchased more memory, to take me to a total of 768M. How do I double the memory size for sw

Re: [newbie] KDM 3.2 still bites...

2005-01-19 Thread Lanman
Bryan Phinney wrote: On Saturday 30 August 2008 06:03, anton wrote: Big hairy things! The year is 2008 where you are at? Gee, and I thought daylight savings time was complicated. Can you tell me who won the US World Series in 2005, I got a date with a bookie. ;-} O.J. Simpson? Will Smith? No

Re: [newbie] BIOS password on a Compaq Presario 1275

2005-01-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Deep Thinker wrote: Hello All, I have a friend that has given me several older machines because she no longer needs them. For one reason or another these machines will not work. Either bad hard drives or cracked screens or whatever. The one machine she gave me that may be of some use is a Comp

[newbie] Addendum: FW: Cisco Aironet on Mandrake 10.1

2005-01-19 Thread Kirschner, Mark
Oh, I did check the Twiki, as well as the hardware compatibility database on the Mandrakesoft site. Also a Google search came up with no help. > -Original Message- > From: Kirschner, Mark > Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 2:39 PM > To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com > Subject:

[newbie] Cisco Aironet on Mandrake 10.1

2005-01-19 Thread Kirschner, Mark
Hello everyone! After too long a time neglecting Mandrake on my laptop, I'm thinking of upgrading to 10.1 (currently running 9.0 on it). With 9.0, I ran into a problem of being unable to get my Aironet 350 card to work unless I flashed the firmware on the card back to a previous revision (sorry,

Re: [newbie] KDM 3.2 still bites...

2005-01-19 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Saturday 30 August 2008 06:03, anton wrote: > Big hairy things! The year is 2008 where you are at? Gee, and I thought daylight savings time was complicated. Can you tell me who won the US World Series in 2005, I got a date with a bookie. ;-} -- Bryan Phinney ___

Re: [newbie] Increasing swap partition size in 10.0

2005-01-19 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 19 January 2005 21:16, J. David Boyd wrote: > My Mandrake 10.0 has been setup and running great since June/July, using > 256M memory. > > When I set up the system, I went with the "double your memory for swap > space" rule. > > Now, I've purchased more memory, to take me to a total of

[newbie] Increasing swap partition size in 10.0

2005-01-19 Thread J. David Boyd
My Mandrake 10.0 has been setup and running great since June/July, using 256M memory. When I set up the system, I went with the "double your memory for swap space" rule. Now, I've purchased more memory, to take me to a total of 768M. How do I double the memory size for swap space? Is there som

[newbie] BIOS password on a Compaq Presario 1275

2005-01-19 Thread Deep Thinker
Hello All, I have a friend that has given me several older machines because she no longer needs them. For one reason or another these machines will not work. Either bad hard drives or cracked screens or whatever. The one machine she gave me that may be of some use is a Compaq Presario 1275. In h

[newbie] urpmi update, kdebase problems

2005-01-19 Thread Julie Sloan
Hi all - - I see this mentioned in the Cooker archives, May and December 2003, but if someone also posted a solution I either missed it or am too dense to recognize it for what it is. FWIW the archive subject lines are: [Cooker] urpmi bug or not? (probably something with virtual packages...) and

Re: [newbie] openoffice segfaulting

2005-01-19 Thread JR
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 07:09 pm, Charles Lee Ying wrote: > JR wrote: > >On Monday 17 January 2005 05:59 pm, Charles Lee Ying wrote: > >>JR wrote: > >>>OpenOffice will no longer run since I installed the quickstart program > >>> via urpm. Running any of the OO apps from the command line results

Re: [newbie] Fonts too small to see

2005-01-19 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 19 Jan 2005 17:15, Owen wrote: > At 10:43 AM 1/14/2005, Anne wrote: > >"I presume this is in Konqueror, so I'd go to kcontrol (Configure Your > >Desktop) > > > > > Look and Feel > Fonts and experiment there with ..." > > Thanks Anne, > I

Re: [newbie] Fonts too small to see

2005-01-19 Thread Owen
At 10:43 AM 1/14/2005, Anne wrote: "I presume this is in Konqueror, so I'd go to kcontrol (Configure Your Desktop) > Look and Feel > Fonts and experiment there with ..." Thanks Anne,  I did what you advised. I think the problem lies with the video card. Any suggestions for a replacement?    

Re: [newbie] Window sizing problem

2005-01-19 Thread Owen
4556At 08:28 PM 1/18/2005, cervixcouch wrote: "Sometimes, when I'm in an application (doesn't matter which one) I'll click on a button and the next window that opens will be cropped," I've run into the same problem with my 19inch monitor. I have gone the same route as you and had to compromise wi

Re: [newbie] Hidden partitions

2005-01-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Lanman wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Lanman wrote: I'm interested in finding out if it's possible to create hidden partitions on a Linux system. Does anyone know if this is possible? I'm toying with the idea of putting an image (ISO or whatever) file on this partition for quick-restores. T

Re: [newbie] Hidden partitions

2005-01-19 Thread Lanman
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Lanman wrote: I'm interested in finding out if it's possible to create hidden partitions on a Linux system. Does anyone know if this is possible? I'm toying with the idea of putting an image (ISO or whatever) file on this partition for quick-restores. The image would

Re: [newbie] Hidden partitions

2005-01-19 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Lanman wrote: I'm interested in finding out if it's possible to create hidden partitions on a Linux system. Does anyone know if this is possible? I'm toying with the idea of putting an image (ISO or whatever) file on this partition for quick-restores. The image would then only be accessible vi

[newbie] Hidden partitions

2005-01-19 Thread Lanman
I'm interested in finding out if it's possible to create hidden partitions on a Linux system. Does anyone know if this is possible? I'm toying with the idea of putting an image (ISO or whatever) file on this partition for quick-restores. The image would then only be accessible via a bootable flo

[newbie] Proftpd and sshd take long time the authentification...

2005-01-19 Thread Javier Enrique Tiá Marín
Hi, Mandrake 10.1 Official installed with proftpd and sshd takes long time the authentification. proftpd show this: # ftp tuxserver 500 AUTH not understood 500 AUTH not understood KERBEROS_V4 rejected as an authentication type I have a Mandrake 10.0 in same network and haven't a problem... TI

Re: [newbie] still no DVD

2005-01-19 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 19 Jan 2005 13:06, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Wednesday 19 January 2005 07:33, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Wednesday 19 Jan 2005 07:48, John Layt wrote: > > > AFAIK, the libdvdcss not ony decodes the css encryption, but it also > > > bypasses

Re: [newbie] still no DVD

2005-01-19 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 19 January 2005 07:33, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 19 Jan 2005 07:48, John Layt wrote: > > AFAIK, the libdvdcss not ony decodes the css encryption, but it also > > bypasses the region code. For instance, my Xine setting is currently at > > Region 1, but all my DVD's are region 4

Re: [newbie] Re: KDE disaster

2005-01-19 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 19 Jan 2005 07:12, Russell Butler wrote: > Sorry to answer my own question, but I gave in and took over a 15GB > portion of a windows partition I had already corrupted, and put in a new > system. Now all I have to do is set up win4Lin agai

Re: [newbie] still no DVD

2005-01-19 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 19 Jan 2005 07:48, John Layt wrote: > > AFAIK, the libdvdcss not ony decodes the css encryption, but it also > bypasses the region code. For instance, my Xine setting is currently at > Region 1, but all my DVD's are region 4 and they happ

Re: [newbie] still no DVD

2005-01-19 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 19 Jan 2005 00:04, Charles Lee Ying wrote: > > Hey Christophe, I saw Anne made a suggestion concerning the region the > player is set for. I tested this and it should have given you an error, > maybe this does not happen in all cases. Wha

Re: [newbie] Re: OpenOffice question

2005-01-19 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 19 Jan 2005 07:22, Russell Butler wrote: > If you do, as you should, File-Templates-Save then they should be in > whatever directory is set in Tools-Options-Paths-Templates. > Yes - I realise that. Coming from another background, I expect

Re: [newbie] Re: OpenOffice question

2005-01-19 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 19 Jan 2005 07:17, SnapafunFrank wrote: > > From my reading your stuff on this forum I know you are better at this > than I so maybe a simpler approach may be the answer? > > # updatedb > > # slocate *.stw > > or maybe > > # slocate *.stw

Re: [newbie] Install third-party commercial software

2005-01-19 Thread John Layt
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 07:03, Pablo Ortuzar wrote: > On Tuesday 18 January 2005 20:13, Derek Jennings wrote: > > On Tuesday 18 January 2005 17:41, Andy Yankovich wrote: > > > I would like to install 2 third-party commercial software items. > > > One is Forte-Agent 2.0 from an internet download; the ot

Re: [newbie] Install third-party commercial software

2005-01-19 Thread et
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 02:50 pm, Elwyn wrote: > On Tuesday 18 Jan 2005 19:13, Derek Jennings wrote: > > On Tuesday 18 January 2005 17:41, Andy Yankovich wrote: > > > I would like to install 2 third-party commercial software items. > > > One is Forte-Agent 2.0 from an internet download; the othe

Re: [newbie] addendum to third request

2005-01-19 Thread et
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 11:19 am, Andy Yankovich wrote: > I would be happy to pay for telephone support. > > Since I an not log on to MDK online or MDK expert please tell me > how to get fee-based telephone support. > > Thanks, Andy Andy, first, set your email programs 'reply to' to an empty wh